Election Gazette Focus
Self-directed learning: How ‘unschoolers’ control their education – Big Think
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….the role of the adults in unschooling is to provide these resources and opportunities and to facilitate a child’s self-directed learning, but to do that without coercion. So nothing is required of the child. It’s not that now we’re going to sit down and do math for 45 minutes or were going to read this particular history book for 45 minutes. It’s really supporting those natural drives. And in that process the research shows that young people, again, because they’re naturally curious are eager to explore these other topics and other ideas and become well-rounded, highly educated individuals.
Facebook acquires Ctrl-labs to advance its brain-machine interface efforts – Venture Beat
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Facebook this evening announced it intends to buy Ctrl-labs, a New York-based startup developing a wristband that translates musculoneural signals into machine-interpretable commands. The acquisition hasn’t yet closed, and the terms weren’t revealed publicly.
(CNBC pegs the deal at approximately $1 billion, half the amount Facebook paid to acquire virtual reality company Oculus VR in 2014.) But the Menlo Park company said it plans to fold Ctrl-labs into its Reality Labs division, whose principal work concerns virtual and augmented reality technology.
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Historic ruling: The Supreme Court has ruled that Boris Johnson suspended UK Parliament unlawfully. The landmark decision was unanimous.
Calls for Johnson to resign: Reacting to this morning’s ruling, opposition politicians called on the Prime Minister to resign.
Johnson’s controversial decision: The PM had claimed he shut down Parliament to prepare for a new session, but critics said it was to stifle opposition over Brexit.
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The newest cancer sniffer might not be as cute as a sharp-nosed canine, but it could give doctors a new way to determine the best treatment for patients using just the melange of compounds in their breath.
The eNose can detect with 85 percent accuracy if a person will respond to immunotherapy, say researchers in a paper published today in Annals of Oncology. That could make it an alternative to current methods of determining which cancer treatment is best suited to different patients.
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Husband fakes his own death to prove his wife hired hitman to kill him – Independent UK
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To further incriminate his wife, the Texas Rangers staged photographs, featuring an apparently dead Mr Sosa lying in a grave. Mr Sosa’s face was painted to give the impression that he had been shot in the head.
“That picture, to this day, reflects one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life,” he said. An undercover police officer, posing as a hitman, later showed Ms Sosa the photographs. She reportedly smiled and shook his hand.
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Catalans to vote on greater self governance | World – The Times
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Spain’s prime minister has offered to give Catalonia a referendum on greater autonomy as he seeks to pre-empt a new drive for independence from Barcelona’s separatists.
Pedro Sánchez said he was ready to give more powers to Spain’s wealthiest region but would not entertain any vote on independence. “It is a referendum for autonomy, not for self-determination,” he told Spanish radio.
Catalonia already has a high degree of autonomy, controlling its own police service, schools, health service and prisons.
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